| Novel |
Villain |
Objective |
Objective Failed |
Fate |
| Casino Royale |
Le Chiffre |
Escape bankruptcy by playing Baccarat. |
Bond beat Le Chiffre at the Baccarat tournament. |
Killed by a SMERSH hitman. |
| Live and Let Die |
Mr. Big |
Smuggle and sell ancient gold coins in order to finance SMERSH operations. |
Bond destroys the coins and kills Big. |
Eaten by a swarm of barracuda and sharks. |
| Moonraker |
Hugo Drax |
Destroy London with a nuclear missile, the eponymous Moonraker. |
Bond redirected rocket target. |
Killed by own rocket after Bond alters the guidance system. |
| Diamonds Are Forever |
Jack Spang |
Smuggle Diamonds from Africa to America. |
Pipeline dismantled. |
Killed when his helicopter is shot down by Bond. |
| Seraffimo Spang |
Shot in the leg by Bond while Spang drives his train, causing Spang to accidentally de-rail the train and make it crash. |
| From Russia with Love |
Rosa Klebb |
Kill James Bond in a humiliating sex scandal, kill MI6 cryptanalysts with boobytrapped cypher machine. |
Grant failed to kill Bond, so did Klebb. |
Captured by the Deuxieme Bureau. Later died. |
| General Grubozaboyschikov |
Survived. |
| Dr. No |
Dr. Julius No |
Disrupt U.S. guided missile tests. |
Dr. No killed, project dismantled. |
Buried under a heap of guano by Bond. |
| Goldfinger |
Auric Goldfinger |
Rob Fort Knox. |
U.S. authorities alerted by Bond. |
Strangled by Bond. |
| "From a View to a Kill" (short story) |
Krimmler, the soviet sniper |
Kill dispatch-riders of SHAPE to steal information from the British secret service. |
Riders killed but information recovered by Bond. |
Shot through the throat by Bond. |
| "For Your Eyes Only" (short story) |
Colonel Von Hammerstein |
Acquire the Havelock Estate in Jamaica to use as an HQ for a drug running operation. |
He obtains the estate but he and his henchmen are later killed. |
Killed by Judy Havelock with arrow. |
| "Quantum of Solace" (short story) |
No villain |
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| "Risico" (short story) |
Aristotle Kristatos |
Smuggle drugs, aid Soviet missile development, and mislead Bond into killing rival. |
Bond discovered the truth. |
Shot by Bond while driving his car; car drove off into fog. |
| "The Hildebrand Rarity" (short story) |
Milton Krest |
Catch the Hildebrand Rarity and abuse wife. |
Caught the fish. |
Choked to death on the rare fish, Bond threw the body overboard. |
| Thunderball |
Emilio Largo |
Blackmail the western world with two stolen atomic bombs. |
Bond discovered the location of the bombs. |
Shot with a speargun in the neck by his mistress, Domino. |
| Ernst Stavro Blofeld |
Survived. |
| The Spy Who Loved Me |
Mr. Sanguinetti |
Have his motel burnt down and have Vivienne Michel assassinated in order to claim property and life insurances. |
His assassins failed to kill Vivienne and set the place on fire. |
Survived. |
| Sol "Horror" Horowitz and "Sluggsy" Morant |
Assassinate Vivienne Michel under orders of Mr. Sanguinetti and torch the motel Sanguinetti owned. |
They fail to kill Vivienne and are killed themselves. |
Accidentally shoot each other fatally while trying to shoot Bond. |
| On Her Majesty's Secret Service |
Ernst Stavro Blofeld |
Develop deadly virus to destroy British livestock and cereals. |
Virus and HQ destroyed by Bond and MI6 Agents. |
Survived. |
| You Only Live Twice |
Ernst Stavro Blofeld |
Entice depressed Japanese to suicide to inherit castle to use as HQ, and trillion dollar fortune to finance terrorist plots. |
Japanese man is saved by Bond and the castle is destroyed. |
Strangled by Bond. |
| The Man with the Golden Gun |
Francisco (Paco) "Pistols" Scaramanga |
Expand his international crime organization to the Caribbean. |
His allies are killed in the explosion of his mansion and he is killed by Bond. |
Shot by Bond, ultimately through the heart. |
| "Octopussy" (short story) |
Major Dexter Smythe |
Live off looted Nazi gold. |
Discovered and killed by Bond. |
Stung by poisonous fish and suffocated by an octopus. Bond registers his death as suicide. |
| "The Property of a Lady" (short story) |
Maria Freudenstein and her Soviet contact |
Receive secret payment for double agent services. |
Succeeded. |
Survived. |
| "The Living Daylights" (short story) |
Trigger, NKVD assassin. |
Assassinate defector. |
Gun shot out of hand before he can kill the defector. |
Wounded by Bond, but he survived and escaped. |
| "007 In New York" (short story) |
Trigger, NKVD assassin. |
Assassinate a prominent FBI agent. |
Assassination stopped and Trigger killed by Bond. |
Shoved off a ten story building by Bond. |
| Film |
Villain |
Portrayed by |
Objective |
Objective Failed |
Fate |
| Dr. No |
Dr. Julius No |
Joseph Wiseman |
Sabotage American missile tests. |
Bond overloads the nuclear reactor in No's base causing the toppling device used to sabotage the tests to overload and disable |
Lowered into his own reactor coolant and boiled to death. Unable to escape due to metal hands. |
| From Russia With Love |
Rosa Klebb |
Lotte Lenya |
Acquire Russian decoding device and assassinate James Bond. |
Bond acquires the device for MI6 and England and survives the assassination plot. |
Shot in the chest by Tatiana Romanova. |
| Ernst Stavro Blofeld |
Anthony Dawson (body), Eric Pohlmann (voice) |
Survives |
| Goldfinger |
Auric Goldfinger |
Gert Fröbe |
Detonate a nuclear bomb in Fort Knox destroying all American gold to make his own gold more valuable. |
Bond disposes of the bomb before it goes off inside Fort Knox. |
Sucked out of a depressurizing plane through a shattered window. |
| Thunderball |
Emilio Largo |
Adolfo Celi |
Use stolen nuclear missiles to extort money out of the UK. |
Missiles destroyed by Bond and the U.S. coast guard before the ransom money was delivered. |
Shot in the back with a harpoon from a speargun shot by his mistress, Domino. |
| Ernst Stavro Blofeld |
Anthony Dawson (body), Eric Pohlmann (voice) |
Survives |
| You Only Live Twice |
Ernst Stavro Blofeld |
Donald Pleasence |
Capture US & Soviet spacecraft from orbit in order to provoke war between the superpowers on behalf of a third aspiring power (presumably Red China). |
Bond uses a self-destruct button in Blofeld's lair to destroy the Bird 1 spacecraft which catches other spacecraft. |
Survives. |
| On Her Majesty's Secret Service |
Ernst Stavro Blofeld |
Telly Savalas |
Extort the world with viruses that destroy crops and livestock. |
Bond with the help of Marc Ange Draco destroys the laboratory where the viruses are being developed before they can be released. |
Survives. |
| Diamonds Are Forever |
Ernst Stavro Blofeld |
Charles Gray |
Create death-ray satellite capable of destroying targets anywhere on Earth. |
Bond smashes his Bath-o-Sub multiple times against the control room of Blofeld's lair disabling the satellite. |
Survives. (This is not revealed until the opening scene of For Your Eyes Only, where he is disfigured and in a wheelchair. Bond drops him down a factory smokestack.) |
| Live and Let Die |
Dr. Kananga / Mr. Big |
Yaphet Kotto |
Distribute heroin free of charge on the market, which will drive all the other drug cartels out of business, increasing the number of addicts, and give Kananga a monopoly of the heroin market |
Quarrel Jr. destroys his poppy fields. |
Forced to swallow shark gun bullet, then he inflates and explodes. |
| The Man with the Golden Gun |
Francisco Scaramanga |
Christopher Lee |
Acquire the Solex Agitator, a vital component for a solar power plant and also to kill Bond, the one man he thinks is his equal. |
Bond kills him and steals the Agitator for MI6. |
Shot in the heart by Bond in the Hall of Mirrors. |
| The Spy Who Loved Me |
Karl Stromberg |
Curd Jürgens |
Destroy the world, starting by using hijacked US and Soviet submarines to fire nuclear missiles that destroy New York and Moscow (which would trick the world's governments into a nuclear holocaust); rebuild civilization under the sea. |
Bond redirects the missiles' coordinates so that the missile fired by each sub hits the other. |
Shot multiple times through tube under his dining table and above table by Bond. |
| Moonraker |
Hugo Drax |
Michael Lonsdale |
Destroy all human life on Earth using a poisonous gas infused into specially designed globes, rebuild humanity from carefully chosen breeding stock. |
The space station containing the poisonous globes was destroyed by US Marines, and the three globes that were launched were destroyed by Bond and Holly Goodhead before they did any damage. |
Shot with poison dart gun and forced into outer space by Bond. |
| For Your Eyes Only |
Aris Kristatos |
Julian Glover |
Acquire the ATAC device, which would enable hijacking of British Polaris missiles. |
Bond destroys the ATAC by throwing it off a cliff. |
Stabbed in the back with throwing knife by Milos Columbo. |
| Ernst Stavro Blofeld |
John Hollis |
To kill Bond in revenge for him ruining all of his schemes and dismantling SPECTRE (by controlling his helicopter and making it crash). |
Bond disconnects the wire Blofeld is using to control the helicopter and kills Blofeld. |
Gets dropped down a chimney by Bond. |
| Octopussy |
Kamal Khan |
Louis Jourdan |
To aid General Orlov in his plan and thus get stolen Kremlin jewels. |
Bond disarms the bomb. |
Dies in fiery plane crash into a mountain thanks to Bond. |
| General Orlov |
Steven Berkoff |
Detonate a U.S. nuclear bomb in a U.S. army base during a circus performance, which Orlov hopes will lead Europe to demand nuclear disarmament, allowing General Orlov's power-hungry plans to invade and take over Western Europe to come to fruition. |
Whilst attempting to jump on top of Octopussy's circus train, he knocks down three border guards, leading them to shoot him repeatedly in the back with machine guns. |
| A View to a Kill |
Max Zorin |
Christopher Walken |
Cause massive earthquake destroying Silicon Valley to monopolize the microchip market. |
His former henchman and lover, May Day, switches sides and removes a bomb necessary for Zorin's plan to succeed; she dies in the explosion which causes no other damage because of her efforts. |
Plummets from top of Golden Gate Bridge. |
| The Living Daylights |
Brad Whitaker |
Joe Don Baker |
To engage in a triangle deal with Koskov and Feyador where Whitaker will get opium to sell on the Black Market. |
The opium getting delivered to Whittaker gets destroyed throwing the whole deal into disorder |
Bond places his key chain, which contains a plastic explosive, on a bust of Wellington in Whitaker's study. Bond then triggers the explosive, which causes the bust to fall on Whitaker and kill him. |
| General Koskov |
Jeroen Krabbé |
To engage in a triangle deal with Feyador and Whitaker where Koskov will get valuable diamonds |
Arrested; execution implied but not shown on screen. |
| Licence to Kill |
Franz Sanchez |
Robert Davi |
Smuggle and distribute cocaine disguised as gasoline in America |
Bond kills him and destroys his drugs. |
Gasoline-soaked body set aflame by Bond, then blown up. |
| GoldenEye |
Alec Trevelyan (006) |
Sean Bean |
Take over GoldenEye EMP satellite and use for profit and revenge. |
Bond destroys the GoldenEye by sabotaging the ground transmitter, causing the GoldenEye to burn up on re-entry. |
Dropped by Bond down from radar dish, framework drops on top of him after. |
| Tomorrow Never Dies |
Elliot Carver |
Jonathan Pryce |
Provoke war between the UK and China to generate headlines for news reporting. |
Bond destroys Carver's Stealth Ship in a massive explosion, destroying the missile needed to provoke the war. |
Forced into path of Sea-Vac remote controlled drill by Bond and shredded into bits. |
| The World Is Not Enough |
Viktor 'Renard' Zokas |
Robert Carlyle |
Blow up a nuclear submarine in the Bosphorus strait, preventing oil shipping. |
Bond stops him from blowing up the submarine. |
Impaled in the chest by plutonium rod that is shot out of the reactor by Bond. |
| Elektra King |
Sophie Marceau |
Kill her father and seize his oil business, which she believes is rightfully hers. |
Although she does kill her father, Bond stops her oil monopolization schemes and kills her. |
Shot by Bond. |
Die Another
Day |
Gustav Graves (Colonel Moon) |
Toby Stephens (Will Yun Lee) |
Invade South Korea with the help of a death-ray satellite. |
When he is killed, the satellite is rendered harmless due to the fact that the suit Graves was wearing at the time was its power source. |
Bond pulls the cord on his parachute, sucking him into a plane engine and shredding him to bits. |
| Casino Royale |
Le Chiffre |
Mads Mikkelsen |
Regain clients' money lost in failed terrorist plot by playing and winning a Texas hold 'em tournament. |
Bond wins the money, and Le Chiffre is consequently killed by Mr. White. |
Shot in the head by Mr. White. |
| Mr. White |
Jesper Christensen |
Regain money lost by Le Chiffre |
He regains the money, but is captured by Bond. |
Shot in the leg and arrested, but survives. |
| Quantum of Solace |
Dominic Greene |
Mathieu Amalric |
Stage a coup d'état in Latin America, to gain control of a piece of land rich in resources. |
Camille kills General Medrano (Greene's associate who'll execute the plan), and Bill Tanner, using some hacking, bankrupts Greene, making all of his efforts for naught. |
Left by Bond in the middle of the Bolivian desert, shot twice in the back of the head by an unidentified Quantum agent. |
| General Medrano |
Joaquin Cosio |
Aid Dominic Greene in his plan so as to become dictator of Bolivia. |
Camille, in revenge for Medrano slaughtering her family, kills him, thus ruining the plan. |
Shot in the chest by Camille. |
| Mr. White |
Jesper Christensen |
Escape from MI6 custody. |
Succeeds. |
Remains at large. |
